“I always imagined Paradise as something like a library,” admitted Jorge Luis Borges, the famous Argentine writer, who also won the fame of “the most important reader of the twentieth century.” Borges was a librarian for 27 years. A great systematizer and mystifier, he embodied his passion for books not only in his own work, but also in compiling anthologies.
“I always imagined Paradise as something like a library,” admitted Jorge Luis Borges, the famous Argentine writer, who also won the fame of “the most important reader of the twentieth century.” Borges was a librarian for 27 years. A great systematizer and mystifier, he embodied his passion for books not only in his own work, but also in compiling anthologies. In the «Volume of Secrets» co-created with the writer Adolfo Bioy Casares «The Book of Dreams», «The Book of Hell and Heaven», «The Collection of Short and Extraordinary Stories» (selection), as well as «The Book of Fictional Creatures» — an encyclopedia of fantastic zoology, co-written with Margherita Guerrero. The excerpts from the texts of world literature collected here put together in a curious mosaic the contradictory ideas of mankind about the phenomena of the mysterious, unknown or created by our imagination.
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